
What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
- 8.4
- 1962
- Released
- 2h 15m

Tatsuya Nakadai
Hanshiro Tsugumo
Akira Ishihama
Motome Chijiiwa
Shima Iwashita
Miho Tsugumo
Tetsuro Tamba
Hikokuro Omodaka
Masao Mishima
Tango Inaba
Ichirō Nakatani
Hayato Yazaki
Kei Satō
Masakazu
Yoshio Inaba
Jinai Chijiiwa
Hisashi Igawa
Retainer
Toru Takeuchi
Retainer
Yoshirō Aoki

Tatsuo Matsumura

Akiji Kobayashi

Kōichi Hayashi

Ryūtarō Gomi

Jo Azumi

Nakajirō Tomita

Shichisaburo Amatsu

Kenzō Tanaka

Shin Nakahara

Tsuneo Ikeda

Minoru Miyagi

Takaaki Kadota

Ichirō Yamamoto

Gen Takasugi

Satoshi Nishida

Tetsuro Komiyama

Shûichirô Narita

Noboru Kasuga

Shinpachi Kura

Kenji Hayashi

Shōtarō Hayashi

Shimezo Kataoka

Bunya Ozawa

Konosuke Takemoto

Rentaro Mikuni
Kageyu Saito
Released
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- #japan
- #samurai
- #asia
- #flashback
- #revenge
- #poverty
- #black and white
- #seppuku
- #ronin
- #jidaigeki
- #edo period
- #17th century
- #shogunate
- #bushi
- #bakumatsu
- #distressing
- #excited
Reviews

**It's a film that might scare modern audiences a bit, but it deserves the opportunity we want to give it.** In addition to having a very strong film industry, Japan is a country with a very rich past that we in the West tend to devalue. A somewhat ethnocentric attitude, more typical of small minds. For a long time, the Japanese were a people divided by several feudal princes who fought among t
This is an amazing Japanese classic written and filmed without flaw. The action unfolds in story-telling within story-telling. This is a film about truth. Whose truth? That is the unfoldment. In a perverted way, this amazing piece of work has become predictive of Western corporate banking. Perhaps you'll see what I mean at the end of the film.











